Step Back In Time With These Dazzling Historical Shoes

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Shoes don’t seem like they’d be so important to fashion. After all, they’re way down there on your feet, right on the ground.

But it seems that, while they may be at the bottom of the outfit, they rank pretty high in fashion — and it seems people have always thought so, all over the world, and even thousands of years ago!

It turns out that throughout history, millions of other people — men as well as women — have loved shoes as much as we do today.

And just like today, they painstakingly designed and decorated them, and even used them as status symbols.

Shoes are one of the most necessary items of clothing, too, as they protect the feet from the elements and keep them safe. Not having shoes is a major problem, and one that people still face today, like one homeless woman on the subway.

Check out some of the shoes that have been worn by people all over the world, and let us know in the comments below which is your favorite pair!

These shoes had a very practical secret. The embroidery could be taken out and restitched to match any gown!

Because of their color-changing abilities, they were called “chameleon shoes.”

Getting the perfect shoe could be dangerous business…

These dainty lavender booties from the 1860s are hiding a dark secret: the dye used to get this pretty purple color contained arsenic, and they would have given the wearer’s feet a rash. But people loved the poison for the brilliant colors it made as a dye.